The Royal Warwickshire Regiment

1673: raised in Holland
Sir Walter Vane’s
Regiment of Foot
1674: Luke Lillingston’s
1675: in Dutch service
Regiment Engelsen Lillingston
1675: Regiment Engelsen Ashley
1677: Regiment Engelsen Bellasis
1694: Regiment Engelsen Babington
1688: to the English establishment
Philip Babington’s
Regiment of Foot
1694: Prince George of Hesse Darmstadt’s
1694: Henry de Caumont’s
1695: Ventris Columbine’s
1703: James River’s
1706: William Southwell’s
1708: Thomas Harrison’s
1716: Robert Dormer’s
1720: James Dormer’s
1738: John Guise’s
1751: 6th Regiment of Foot

6th-Foot
1782: 6th (1st Warwickshire)
Regiment of Foot

1804: 2nd Bn raised
1815: 2nd Bn disbanded
1832: 6th (Royal Warwickshire)
Regiment of Foot

1846: Reserve Bn raised
1849: Reserve Bn disbanded
1857: 2nd Bn raised
6th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Warwickshire
Warwicks
1898: 3rd Bn raised
1900: 4th Bn raised
1907: 3rd Bn and 4th Bn disbanded
1948: 2nd Bn disbanded
1948:
part of
The Midland Brigade
1958:
brigade renamed in
The Forester Brigade
Forester
1963: The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
transferred to
The Fusilier Brigade
RRF
1968: 2nd Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
part of
The Queen’s Division
2014: merged into
1st Battalion,
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers